Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Guru-Shishya’ parampara denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Vedic culture. It is the tradition of spiritual relationship and mentoring where teachings are transmitted from a ‘Guru’ (teacher) to a ‘Shishya’ (student). Shishya eventually masters the knowledge Guru embodies. City’s Nrityagiri Academy has initiated a special series ‘Guru-Shishya Nrityollasa,’ a dance recital…
Register FIRs against tea shops violating COTPA: ADC tells officials
February 14, 2020Rs. 8,000 worth cigarettes and gutka seized from three shops Three persons fined Rs. 200 each for smoking in public Mysore/Mysuru: In an effort to implement the COTPA ACT in city effectively, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) B.R. Poornima, along with the officials of the District Health and Family Welfare Department and the District Administration, conducted…
Extra-corporeal Radiotherapy performed on 9-year-old
February 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Doctors at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysuru, Dr. K.R. Suhas, Dr. M.B. Suman and their team, have performed Extra-Corporeal Radiotherapy on a nine-year-old girl to save her from bone cancer. The successful completion of the treatment has made Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, the first hospital in the city to have performed this therapy. The girl came…
Libraries in all 65 Wards of the city soon: Mayor
February 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Mayor Tasneem has assured that libraries will be set up in all the 65 Wards of the city soon with the provision of basic facilities including toilets and electricity. She was speaking at a meeting convened with the District Library Committee members at City Central Library, Government Ayurveda College Circle, recently. “Out of…
Five persons arrested while attempting to sell Sand Boa
February 14, 2020Madikeri: The Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested five persons, who were trying to sell a Sand Boa snake at Thithimathi in Virajpet taluk on Feb. 12 and have rescued the snake from them. The accused are 57-year-old Mulla Mehaboob Vali, 45-year-old Sheik Mulla Chand Pasha, 27-year-old S. Fayaz, 45-year-old Boya Rangaswamy and 29-year-old Sheik…
Water released to KRS Canals
February 14, 2020Mandya: Following demand from farmers, Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Ltd.(CNNL) authorities has released water to KRS canals starting from yesterday (Feb.13). CNNL Superintendent Engineer K.G. Vijaykumar said that following a Cauvery Tribunal order, water has been released in all canals of KRS reservoir to enable the farmers to irrigate sugarcane fields along the path of the…
An Ode to a Slogging Soul !
February 14, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As a practising doctor over nearly forty long years, I have had an occasion to interact closely with the many medical representatives who visit my clinic almost every day as part of their work. This interaction has given me an opportunity to observe them from very close quarters and…
Social realities
February 14, 2020Days of a distant past, one may have to surmise based on anecdotes, chronicles, folklore, literary outputs of writers, fables, proverbs, scriptures, sculptures and even conjecture, seem to have been marked by people living in harmony while engaging themselves on a few pursuits such as agriculture, spiritual studies, trading and protecting territory from aliens bent…
Impact of Government Order permitting land conversion in Kodagu
February 14, 2020Sir, The recent order by the Government of Karnataka is a great setback in protecting the fragile ecosystem of Kodagu. As the President of Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) I had written to the Chief Secretary of Karnataka during February 2019 requesting the Government to continue the ban on land conversion citing the havoc, severe landslides…
Elected to Mysore Merchants Co-op. Bank
February 14, 2020R. Anand was unanimously elected as President and R.P. Krishnamurthy as Vice-President of The Mysore Merchants Co-operative Bank Limited for the period 2020 -2025. They are seen with Bank Directors S. Rachappaji, C.S. Gangambike, N. Sudha, A. Prabhuprasad, B. Kodandaram, B.R. Nandish, K. Premkumar, M.N. Mahesh, N. Raghava, C.V. Somashekar, N. Kannan and Bank General…
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